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Pew Research Center:
Democrats on Twitter more liberal, less focused on compromise than those not on the platform — The political views and primary candidate preferences of Democrats on Twitter differ from those who are not on the platform, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in January.
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Ryan Lizza / Politico:
Iowa might have just witnessed the start of a Democratic Party takeover — If you were an alien visiting Iowa this weekend and were asked to guess the order of Monday's results based on nothing but watching the top four Democrats speak, you would predict a Bernie Sanders victory …
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New York Times:
What Is the Election Needle? And Why Will We Have 4 of Them Tonight? — A closer look at our election forecaster before the Iowa caucuses. — Shortly before 9 p.m. Eastern on Monday, we expect the first returns from the Iowa Democratic caucuses. If you choose to follow the results live tonight …
The Hill:
Biden allies lower expectations for Iowa: 'Most feel it's not going to be great' — Joe Biden's campaign team is setting expectations low for the Iowa caucuses Monday night. — While some campaign aides were unsure how the results would turn out hours before the caucuses would begin …
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ABC News
John F. Harris / Politico:
Iowa Road Trip: Do Reporters Know Anything? — DES MOINES—What's going to happen? — The Uber driver, learning my occupation, wants to know. So, too, newsroom colleagues who cover beats other than politics. So, too, family members, who not unreasonably imagine that I must have gained some insight by leaving them to travel here.
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The Hill, The Gateway Pundit, The Smoke Eater and VICE
The Intercept:
Pork Plant Workers Turn Out for Sanders in First Caucus in Iowa
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Des Moines Register, Vanity Fair and FiveThirtyEight
Lissandra Villa / TIME:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: A ‘Dangerous’ Mistake for Democrats Not to Embrace the Eventual Nominee
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National Review, Axios, Vox, Politico, The Resurgent, Raw Story and The Hill
Tim Alberta / Politico:
Whoever Wins Iowa, They Won't Be Back
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NBC News, Breitbart and Washington Post
Michael Kruse / Politico:
'We Don't Want to F— It Up': How Trump Got Inside Iowa's Head
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Raw Story
Clint Hendler / Mother Jones:
The Iowa Caucuses Are a Democracy Disaster
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FiveThirtyEight, HuffPost and The Dispatch
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Washington Post Threatened Another Star Reporter Over His Tweets — The newspaper's Kobe Bryant tweet mess last week wasn't the first time WaPo bosses got into heated clashes with reporters over social-media policy. — The Washington Post's controversial decision to punish a reporter …
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Politico, more at Mediagazer »
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Emily Peck / HuffPost:
Staffers Say Sexism Runs Deep At The Washington Post
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, more at Mediagazer »
Politico:
Graham and Biden's falling out, closing arguments and other news from today's trial — House impeachment managers and the president's legal team completed closing arguments, ending their last chance to sway senators ahead of Wednesday's vote to convict or acquit President Donald Trump.
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Axios:
Scoop: Veterans Affairs deputy secretary James Byrne fired — Veterans Affairs deputy secretary James Byrne was fired Monday morning, three Trump administration officials tell Axios. The White House confirmed that Byrne is no longer with the administration. — Why it matters: The VA has recently been in inner turmoil.
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Politico, CNBC, The Hill, Raw Story and Task & Purpose
Lindsay Wigo / The Daily Caller:
‘Comfortably Smug’ Twitter Account Banned For Asking 'Where's Hunter, Fat?' — An anonymous and popular Twitter account known as “Comfortably Smug” was apparently banned Monday from Twitter for violating the site's rules on “abuse and harassment” after tweeting about Hunter Biden.
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Twitchy and Clash Daily
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Biden: Impeachment hasn't ‘shaken my faith’ in working with Republicans
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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“It's Payback Time”: With Acquittal Certain, Trump Plots Revenge on Bolton, Impeachment Enemies — Trump, says a source, wants Bolton to be criminally investigated for possibly mishandling classified information. Romney, Schiff, and Nadler are also in West Wing crosshairs.
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Washington Post, Axios and Raw Story
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Cliff Sims / Washington Times:
Bolton now promotes the anti-Trump agenda of Schiff and Pelosi
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Breitbart
Blake Hounshell / Politico:
‘Truly bizarre circumstances’: Anonymous book agents refute whisper campaign against Trump official — The literary agents for the senior Trump administration official who penned an anonymous New York Times op-ed and best-selling book are breaking their silence to swat down a whisper campaign pinning …
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Raw Story
Eric Roston / Bloomberg:
Climate Models Are Running Red Hot, and Scientists Don't Know Why — There are dozens of climate models, and for decades they've agreed on what it would take to heat the planet by about 3° Celsius. It's an outcome that would be disastrous—flooded cities, agricultural failures …
The Guardian:
Political journalists boycott No 10 briefing after PM's aide tries to ban selected reporters - live news — The day's political developments, including Johnson's speech on EU trade talks, and Barnier publishing EU's draft negotiating guidelines — In response to my colleague Rowena Mason's report …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Thinking the Kansas City Chiefs are from Kansas, and Trump's many other geography flubs — For years, one of the Republican Party's favorite digs at President Barack Obama was to point to his “57 states” flub. Obama momentarily confusing his having visited 47 states with 57 states was cause for much laughter at his expense.
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New York Times:
New U.S. Travel Ban Shuts Door on Africa's Biggest Economy, Nigeria — The visa rules will affect nearly a quarter of the people on the African continent, including many hoping to join loved ones already in the U.S. — The newlyweds had already been apart for half their yearlong marriage.
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Jason Wilson / The Guardian:
White nationalist has long worked at conservative outlets under real name — Guardian findings support watchdog's report that ‘Paul Kersey’, a prominent author and activist, is actually Michael J Thompson — A new report has revealed that a prominent white nationalist author …
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
BuzzFeed News is recruiting teenagers to make election-themed TikTok and Instagram videos — BuzzFeed News is looking for a few good teens. The news division of the popular entertainment site is recruiting a brand new type of employee — dubbed “Teen Ambassadors” — who will create original TikTok …
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Washington Post:
Conservatives push false claims of voter fraud on Twitter as Iowans prepare to caucus — The episode showcases social media's hands-off approach and the possible perils ahead for a divisive election season — DES MOINES — The claims of voter fraud were false, proved untrue by public data and the state's top election official.
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NBC News and Associated Press
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Susan Collins' Campaign Is Being Helped by a Mysterious Hawaii Company — The two states, shall we say, are not exactly close to each other. — A mysterious Hawaii company may have illegally funneled a six-figure contribution to a political group boosting an embattled Republican Senator 5,000 miles away …
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Press Herald, POLITICUSUSA and Political Wire
Associated Press:
Greta Thunberg Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize — In nominating her, two Swedish lawmakers said the 17-year-old “has worked hard to make politicians open their eyes to the climate crisis.” — COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Two lawmakers in Sweden have nominated Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg …
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The Daily Signal, The Daily Caller and Mediaite
Jim Dwyer / New York Times:
How a Clash of Egos Became Bigger Than Fixing the Subway — Even as New York transit emerged from a crisis, a feud grew between Andy Byford, the subway leader, and his boss, Gov. Andrew Cuomo. — One day in October, three powerful figures in New York affairs met for a serious lunch at Fraunces Tavern in Lower Manhattan.
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